Top non-index buyers: Goldman Sachs $407M, Capital International $346M, Jane Street Capital $247M, HRT Financial $137M, Wells Fargo Securities $132M, Susquehanna International Group $124M, Capula Investment Management $100M.
Markets quiet in late summer. Fall brings more life: regulatory innovation exemptions, CLARITY Act progress, broader Bitcoin banking adoption, growth in digital credit and digital money, macroeconomic stability, geopolitical progress, and the US midterms. We are still early.
$MSTR is a boat and the Bitcoin cycle is the ocean. Our capital structure is designed to keep the boat afloat through the ebbing and flowing of the waves.
$MSTR is built to outperform Bitcoin over time. It has outperformed Bitcoin in every four-year holding period since we adopted Bitcoin on August 10, 2020. Outperformance comes from growing Bitcoin per share.
Our USD Reserve and Duration are now at all-time highs. In 2.5 months, we added nearly $3.8 billion and grew both more than 5X. This is the Digital Credit Capital Framework at work. $STRC $MSTR
I joined @kgreifeld and @RomaineBostick on Bloomberg today to discuss Strategy’s evolution into a Digital Capital platform, our $3B cash reserve, $STRC, balance sheet resilience, and our long-term commitment to Bitcoin.
01:17 - Strategy’s evolution from Bitcoin Treasury Company to full Digital Capital platform
01:25 - Over 840,000 BTC, $10.5B of $STRC, and Strategy’s responsibilities
01:45 - Why Strategy built a $3B cash reserve after listening to preferred shareholders
02:30 - The path for $STRC: build USD reserves, return $STRC to par, issue more $STRC, and buy $BTC
04:22 - $MSTR’s goal: outperform Bitcoin over time while managing volatility through bull and bear markets
05:41 - Balance sheet resilience and why debt risk is low
06:50 - Strategy’s long-term Bitcoin commitment: “We’re not going anywhere”
07:04 - Bitcoin is bigger than Strategy: 4% ownership, $30–40B of daily volume, and bitcoin sales that did not move the market
08:46 - Software, AI, Bitcoin, and the maturity of a 25-year public company operating inside digital finance